yeah, but isn't Q a function of lvl and pop? i don't know how to read the chart, but since pop decreases after reaching around 16 mil or whatever stupid number it is, the food consumption remains roughly the same whilst you'll be getting more Q to feed the buggers if you've missed the boat to cap at 80 already?
ie.. if you are starving already, having a cap on doesn't help? so why keep the cap?
what level is your starving capped planet? is that your home planet?
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if you planet paid your ship stupid amounts of money for the food and then you can't see the q on the ship and it's disappeared off the planet, surely that's a bug somewhere?
that's not counting the instances of a merchant buying something at high price to sell to somewhere at low or equal price.
mind you.. trading is strange anyway, your ships can sell stuff without the planet having paid fully for it. or at least it did.
